contend with us at sea.  I do not know what will be thought of it in England, but the effect here is highly advantageous to the British name.  Kind remembrances to all my friends; I dare say your neighbour, Mr.——­ will be delighted with the history of the battle; if he had been in it, it would have animated him more than all his daughter’s chemistry; it would have new strung his nerves, and made him young again.  God bless you, my dear sir, may you be ever happy; it is very long since I heard from home.

    I am, ever, your most truly affectionate,

    CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD.

    I have ordered all the boys to be discharged into this ship;
    another such fight will season them pretty well.  Brown is in
    perfect health.  We had forty-seven killed, ninety-four wounded.

Great efforts were made to get all the people out of the disabled vessels before they drifted ashore.  It is really splendid to read the official account of the deeds of bravery of our fine fellows risking their own lives to save the lives of those they had defeated.  Seven days after the battle, the Victory arrived at Gibraltar, and although her masts had been shot away and her hull badly damaged, she was refitted and sailed for England on the 4th November, the same day that the straggling Dumanoir and his ships fell into the hands of Sir Richard Strachan in the Bay of Biscay.

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On the Victory’s arrival at Spithead with Nelson’s remains aboard, preserved in spirits, the body was taken out and put in a leaden coffin filled with brandy and other strong preservatives.  On the arrival of the Victory at the entrance of the Thames, the body was removed, dressed in the Admiral’s uniform, and put into the coffin made out of the mainmast of L’Orient and presented to Nelson some years before by Captain Hallowell.  It was then put into a third case, and on the 9th January, 1806, after lying in state for three days, the remains were buried in St. Paul’s.

The imposing demonstrations of sorrow could not be excelled.  Parliament voted a monument in St. Paul’s Cathedral, and others were erected in all the principal towns in England and Scotland.  There were neither material honours nor eulogies great enough to express the gratitude that was felt throughout the United Kingdom for the late Admiral’s achievements.  His widow, whom he had not seen for years, and from whom he was definitely parted, was granted L2,000 per annum for life.  His brother was made an Earl, with a perpetual income of L6,000 a year, and L15,000 of national money was voted to each of the sisters, while L100,000 was given for an estate to be attached to the title.  The human legacy left by Nelson of Emma Hamilton and their daughter Horatia were not mentioned, though he seems to have implored Heaven and earth in their behalf.  Obviously, the Government felt that they dare not be generous to everybody,